I am going to follow PeterB's lead and start a new topic for this year. Getting all of those old pictures back into the old topic is going to take a while, and in the meantime I have stuff to share!

Here are some happy signs of spring:

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I'm having trouble with my camera. I use auto focus because I have a hard time seeing and it works better than my eyes for many shots. Here is an interesting shot where the auto focus went "wrong" but I still think the picture is cool...

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It’s not the fall that kills you; it’s the sudden stop at the end. Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)

Nice "fat 'n sassy" Opuntia, Harriet! What kind? All of us with O. humifusa can relate! But just yesterday a couple of humifusa pads started to lift from "plastered to the ground" You're "work" with the garden tires me out looking at the effort!

Once bitten by the cactus collecting/growing bug, there is no known cure!There's no 12 step programme for Cactaholics...so I shall just have to get some more!!

The two Opuntia are humifusa. The second one is from a cutting I got from a forum member in the midwest, and the one in the first picture was a "gift" from my husband -- who managed to dig it up from the side of the road just before the mowers got to it. That one is a Florida native!

It’s not the fall that kills you; it’s the sudden stop at the end. Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)

The red aloe in front and the one on the far left came from Arid Lands, one is Aloe cameroni var dedzana, the other is Aloe dorotheae. I bought them both because they are supposed to turn red in sun/stress and I needed/wanted more color in that bed. But I'll have to do some research to figure out which one is which!

Home Depot has the pots. The tall tapered one was just under 10 dollars, the small more rounded one was just under five. The largest size was just under 28 dollars. I bought a bunch. They had round ones too. I thought I was getting a deal on the one the euphorbia is in, until I found Home Depot's stash... Only problem with them is that the stickers won't come off easily... I need to turn them around!

It’s not the fall that kills you; it’s the sudden stop at the end. Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)